Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Costa Rica and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Skatalites to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
New Order,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Symarip,
The Invisible,
EPMD,
The Pretty Things,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Suburban Knight,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Alarm Clocks,
Heaven 17,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lalo Schifrin,
Can,
Silicon Teens,
Arab on Radar,
Crooked Eye,
Dave Gahan,
Maleditus Sound,
Pierre Henry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun City Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
The Standells,
Fatback Band,
The Buckinghams,
Michelle Simonal,
Eli Mardock,
Sun Ra,
Brothers Johnson,
Black Sheep,
Eric Copeland,
This Heat,
The Flesh Eaters,
John Cale,
Swans,
Roger Hodgson,
Lindisfarne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Detroit Cobras,
OOIOO,
The Gories,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
cv313,
Malaria!,
Flipper,
Zero Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Clear Light,
Arcadia,
Sound Behaviour,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fluxion,
Swell Maps,
Warsaw,
Joe Finger,
Buzzcocks,
Kurtis Blow,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.